Exporting to LaTeX is a good idea. Thanks, guys.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:22 AM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, 'C-c C-e l l' I think, but follow the pop-up, and everything should be > ok. > > On Feb 19, 2018 07:05, "Rainer Krug" <rainer_k...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> >> >> > On 19 Feb 2018, at 12:25, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com >> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > On 19/02/2018 5:47 AM, Michael Hannon wrote: >> >> Thanks, Duncan. The files in question are Emacs Org-mode files, and I >> >> think these are more or less isomorphic to Rmd files, but I haven't >> >> used Org-mode in a long time, so I think the mapping (Org-mode ==> >> >> Rmd) would be painful. >> >> That should be easy - you can export org-mode files directly to LaTex. I >> haven’t used org-mode for some time, but I think it is Ctrl - C - E and >> than follow the prompts (obviously in emacs). >> >> Rainer >> >> >> > >> > If they aren't LaTeX then they won't be able to masquerade as Sweave >> files, so things are more complicated. >> > >> > I think there are two possibilities. The better but harder one is to >> write your own "vignette engine". Section 1.4.2 of the manual describes >> the process, and ?tools::vignetteEngine describes what is needed in your >> engine. >> > >> > The other possibility is to manually edit an inst/doc/index.html file to >> include links to your documents. They won't be treated as vignettes, but >> at least users will be able to find them. The other disadvantage of this >> approach is that you'll need to edit it for all vignettes, not just the >> strange ones. >> > >> > Duncan Murdoch >> > >> > >> >> -- Mike >> >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:20 AM, Duncan Murdoch >> >> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>> On 18/02/2018 9:06 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Greetings. The group that I work with has just started using the >> approach >> >>>> outlined in Karl Broman's handy primer: >> >>>> >> >>>> http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/vignettes.html < >> http://kbroman.org/pkg_primer/pages/vignettes.html> >> >>>> >> >>>> to create vignettes for a couple of R packages. >> >>>> >> >>>> This works fine as long as we have a current Rmd version of the >> vignette. >> >>>> But >> >>>> we have some old PDF documents that we'd like to include as vignettes >> as >> >>>> well. >> >>>> I'd like to know if there's a way to include such PDF files as >> vignettes. >> >>>> >> >>>> We *do* have the source files for the PDF files in question, but it >> would >> >>>> be >> >>>> tedious to convert those source files to Rmd format. >> >>>> >> >>>> My first thought was simply to add the PDF files to the .../vignettes >> >>>> subdirectory and run the devtools::build_vignettes() function >> (mentioned >> >>>> in >> >>>> the Broman tutorial), but that doesn't work. I.e., the PDF files >> don't >> >>>> appear >> >>>> in the list of vignettes for the package. >> >>>> >> >>>> And after running devtools::build_vignettes I see that there's a lot >> of >> >>>> additional stuff in: >> >>>> >> >>>> ...lib/R/site-library/<package_name>/... >> >>>> >> >>>> so I don't see any obvious way to "fool" R into using the PDF files >> that >> >>>> haven't gone through the whole knitr/rmarkdown process. (Not to >> mention >> >>>> that >> >>>> such an approach would be fragile at best.) >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> You don't say what format the source is, but if it is LaTeX, you just >> need >> >>> to add some comments at the beginning, rename ending in .Rnw, and R >> will >> >>> recognize plain LaTeX files as Sweave vignettes. >> >>> >> >>> See the Writing R Extensions manual, section 1.4. >> >>> >> >>> Duncan Murdoch >> >>> >> >>>> >> >>>> Suggestions welcome. Thanks. >> >>>> >> >>>> -- Mike >> >>>> >> >>>> ______________________________________________ >> >>>> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help < >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> >>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >>>> >> >>> >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To >> UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help < >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ >> posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> -- >> Rainer M. 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